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Bioethics

One of the many issues of today's conversations is still confusing on my understanding it. Is it ethical for people to engage in animal research for human excellence? And if so, just how far can animal research be taken to meet these achievements for human kind? When thinking about this, I would conclude that animals over human beings do not have any rights what so ever, but I would be the biggest hypocrite in the world by saying this due to believing my doggy (Frankey) has rights in our household. He definitely has a right if he wants to be picked up or petted a certain way etc. In other words, I am more confused than ever to take sides on this controversial issue and feel confident about it. Therefor, I will reveal many pros and cons on the subject of animal research and show that it might not be the best moral work, but it is highly necessary for humans to be free from diseases.Through articles, I have found out that many research experiments have ignored a number of health problems that people endure. Among that list resides heart disease, cancer, strokes, AIDS, and birth defects. I learned that like humans, animals have multiple organs and very complex systems. It has been noted that these systems could mislead researchers and results due to the organs not being identical to that of a human's body system. This indeed may be a fact in some experiments, but the world has many animals who have similar body make ups of humans, therefor we must investigate for the better of us. Other studies have showed that animal research has not been supreme answer to our worries.Another study was the 1960 study of smoking. Unfortunately, animals inhaling smoke did not develop cancer and this of course delayed the government from lobbying to the public of the harshness of smoking. Yes this might have been the case, I did not see any research saying that humans would participate in inhaling large amounts of smoke for the better of mankin...

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